Most of the early workers were Irish immigrants. Railroad work was hard, and management was chaotic, leading to a high attrition rate. The Central Pacific management puzzled over how it could ...

The discrimination that Irish Navvies received from their English counterparts also sometimes spilt over into outright brawling. This gives us some interesting contemporary newspaper coverage ...

It would be lost still but for the leadership of Pat Goggins, an 88-year-old Mill Valley retiree who can trace his lineage to Irish railroad workers on the Great Northern out of Cheyenne. In 2019 ...

The Irish Times sent Irish Rail a copy of the Modern Railways article for verification and comment. In a subsequent statement Irish Rail spokesman Barry Kenny acknowledged the reliability issues ...

Despite tensions between Black and Irish railroad workers, living and laboring side-by side created a distinctly American sound. Musicians Lenwood Leni Sloan, and Silkroad Ensemble member ...